Ponte Jornalismo: trincheiras jornalísticas de uma guerra urbana

Abstract

Activities from press and media through the news covering of crime and violence are of utmost importance for the scheduling of the government’s public security policies, and for the way of seeing and living the world of man, especially the urban man. This study analyzes the journalistic coverage of police violence carried out by the Ponte Jornalismo news portal, noting in particular which sources are triggered by the news and how they are addressed in the discourse. Our corpus is composed by 87 stories from the first year of the portal's performance, which are analyzed from the methodologies of content analysis and discourse analysis. Ponte Jornalismo uses preferably non-institutional sources such as experts, family members of victims, witnesses - sources that are minority in the coverage of the mainstream media about violence. Thereby, we can stress and problematize on an alternative way to treat the phenomenon of urban violence in journalistic coverage, as a generator of discussions and promoter of a schedule of public policies for security.